Native inhabitants

[OTHOAB]

Those who live on the Earth are eartlings.

Mars - martian.

Venus - venusian.

But what about KSP planets? Who do live on Kerbin? Kerblings? Kerbinlings? Kerbitians? What about Dune, Eve and other celestial bodies. How would kerbals who were born in colonies call themselves?

[Jovus]

Kerbals. Just Kerbals.

[OTHOAB]

It seems that kerbal is something related to biology, not to geography, so no, not kerbals.

Edited December 24, 2014 by OTHOAB

[Melfice]

The (dominant) inhabitants of Earth are called... humans.

So, it would stand to reason the inhabitants of Kerbin are called kerbals.

If we ever have permanent, thriving colonies on other planets with diverging human species, it would make more sense to refer to each other as Earth-human, Mars-human, or something of that sort. I doubt Martian or Venusian would ever catch on seeing as we've traditionally used those terms to refer to film-aliens. It might be insulting to those humans living there.

So, probably Kerbin-kerbals, Duna-kerbals, or again something of that sort.

[JacobT11]

Kerbals. Kerbals are the occupants of Kerbin. The entire community agrees on this.

[NFUN]

Those who live on the Earth are eartlings.

Mars - martian.

Venus - venusian.

But what about KSP planets? Who do live on Kerbin? Kerblings? Kerbinlings? Kerbitians? What about Dune, Eve and other celestial bodies. How would kerbals who were born in colonies call themselves?

Besides, what you are referring to is merely the adjective form of the planet names, of which there have been several threads about.

[gmpd2000]

Pre- 0.17

Back in the day when Nova was still a dev:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/entries/60-Om-nom-nomenclature

[OTHOAB]

If we ever have permanent, thriving colonies on other planets with diverging human species, it would make more sense to refer to each other as Earth-human, Mars-human, or something of that sort. I doubt Martian or Venusian would ever catch on seeing as we've traditionally used those terms to refer to film-aliens. It might be insulting to those humans living there.

We do not call people africa-humans, asia-humans, america-humans, etc. We call them Africans, Asians and Americans. Why wouldn't we call Mars colonists as Martians? We do know there are no aliens on the Mars, so term 'martian' is empty.The same goes for other celestial bodies.

Edited December 24, 2014 by OTHOAB